Joyce Tenneson Quotes

• A través de un retrato, potencialmente podemos verlo todo: la historia y la profundidad de la vida de una persona, así como la evidencia de una presencia universal primigenia. He dedicado mi vida y mi energía creativa a captar estos momentos trascendentales en los que se establece una conexión entre el sujeto, el fotógrafo y el espectador.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Creative, Energy

  "Dialogues with Great Photographers - Joyce Tenneson". Interview with Kyle Harris, www.hlphotogallery.com.

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• Our best pictures happen by grace.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Grace, Best Picture

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• I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

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  Photography, People, Feelings

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• I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out something that is indelibly you and authentic - like your thumbprint. It's going to have your style because there is no one like you.

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  Photography, Believe, Roots

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• Lo más importante es intentar disfrutar de la vida, porque nunca se sabe cuándo va a desaparecer. Si te levantas por la mañana y puedes elegir entre hacer la colada o dar un paseo por el parque, opta por el paseo. No te gustaría morirte y darte cuenta de que has pasado tu último día haciendo la colada.

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  Photography, Morning, Hate

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• If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

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  Photography, Discovery, Lenses

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• A lo largo de los años he fotografiado a miles de personas. Nunca he dejado de ser curioso y de intentar descubrir nuevos mundos. También he utilizado mi cámara como espejo para mis sujetos. Recuerdo fotografiar a una mujer de unos 80 años para mi libro Mujeres sabias, que me dijo que hacía mucho tiempo que nadie se interesaba realmente por "verla" o fotografiarla. Cuando vio la foto, rompió a llorar. Vio algo en la fotografía, una belleza interior y un alma que, en su opinión, habían desaparecido hacía mucho tiempo.

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  Wise, Photography, Book

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• Siempre me ha fascinado el ciclo de la vida, la forma en que la piel se metamorfosea con el tiempo. Me hipnotiza la piel y por eso me ha atraído el desnudo. Creo que las personas muestran su alma cuando se desnudan psíquicamente. Hay algo maravilloso que ocurre cuando nos relacionamos a ese nivel, y me interesa esa profundidad.

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  Fotografía, Pensamiento, Personas

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• Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.

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  Flower, Secret, Veils

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• I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

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  Photography, Female, Tornadoes

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• Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

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  Photography, Photographer, Subjects

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• If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

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  Photography, Children, Book

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• I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.

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  Photography, Lying, Communication

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• I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

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  Photography, Hair, Skulls

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• I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

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  Photography, Artist, Self

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• I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

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  Photography, Growing, Photographer

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• Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

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  Photography, Focus, Photographer

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• I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.

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  Photography, Light, Essence

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• Mis primeros autorretratos aparecían sin esfuerzo y parecían equivalentes de mis emociones más profundas. Muchos críticos comentaron que las imágenes tenían una presencia inquietante, casi de otro mundo. Para mí, eran simplemente mi propia realidad en ese momento de mi vida. Lo que intentaba revelar era mi alma interior en toda su frágil complejidad. Sin saberlo, intentaba desvelar las capas que nos envuelven y nos atan a todos cuando luchamos por revelar nuestro auténtico yo.

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  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

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  Fotografía, Pensamiento, Personas

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• I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

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  Photography, Games, Play

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• The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

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  Photography, People, Photographer

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• Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission.

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  Photography, Teacher, Reflection

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• I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

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  Photography, School, Mentor

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• Toda mi vida artística ha estado dedicada a luchar contra mí mismo y mi capacidad para exteriorizar mis emociones más profundas. A medida que me he hecho mayor, el trabajo se ha vuelto más directo, quizá reflejando el hecho de que por primera vez en mi vida me siento realmente libre. Toda mi vida me han fascinado las alas. He tenido una obsesión con la trascendencia, la necesidad de impulsarme y metafóricamente volar.

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  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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